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GlobalBlock signs the two best deals it will ever get

Kevin Murphy, April 2, 2026, 07:28:46 (UTC), Domain Services

Trademark-blocking service GlobalBlock has added the world’s second and third-largest TLDs to its roster.

China’s .cn and Germany’s .de are now among the hundreds of TLDs, pseudo-TLDs and blockchain namespaces that are covered by the service, which is run by the GoDaddy-managed Brand Safety Alliance.

.cn usually has north of 20 million domains in its zone and .de is currently at around 17.8 million, making them second only to .com in terms of pure domain volume.

These deals are probably the best GlobalBlock will ever get — I can’t see a compelling business case for Verisign to voluntarily sign up .com to the system any time soon.

The next obvious targets would be .uk, .ru, and .nl, the next-largest in the ccTLD space. Several of the larger portfolio gTLD registries such as Radix and XYZ have also yet to join the program.

Nevertheless, GlobalBlock said that it’s recently added 70 “extensions” to the platform, bringing its total to 780.

The outfit says it has blocked five million domains from being registered and recovered over 10,000 domains via Priority AutoCatch, which prevents brand-match names dropping after they expire.


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